Branch with fruits; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 6/2009 © Jingxin Liu
Identifier: 1261 Date of entry: 15.04.2010 Last update: 11.01.2020
English: Box Myrtle
Mandarin: 毛杨梅 (mao yang mei)
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Myricales (6)
Family: Myricaceae (6)(family description)
Genus: Myrica (1)
Epithet: esculenta Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don (4)
esculenta => edible, fit for human food
Climate: tropical
Habit: tree
Flower colour: yellow
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